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• The Daily Report

  Fake nation: On the border (2nd in a 4-part series)

  Meredith Aska McBride | Wed, Feb 20th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: meredith aska mcbride, los angeles, fake id, fake nation, macarthur park, social liminality, civil liberties, big brother, real id, 9/11 | 0

  There’s a lot of overlap at the margins of legality and respectability. A college kid’s fake ID lives in this zone—illegal for now, but not as sketchy as it could be given that its owner will legitimately be able to drink in a few years. But college kids aren’t the fake-ID owners law enforcement is especially worried about.

  As technology continues to improve, it’s getting easier and easier for illegal immigrants to get not just fake drivers’ licenses but also fake Social Security…

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• The Daily Report

  Fake Nation: Debauched youth and fake IDs (1st in a 4-part series)

  Meredith Aska McBride | Mon, Feb 11th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: meredith aska mcbride, maryland, fake nation, fakes, vladimir putin, vodka | 1

  

  Fake ID’s, long considered the province of underage college students, aren’t just for getting drunk anymore. Illegal immigrants are getting them, too, to help secure papers. Many fake-ID producers are attached to legitimate businesses—photo booths, copy centers, even some tattoo parlors. In this series, Next American City investigates the world of phony identification, from immigration to good old-fashioned anthropology (i.e. an excuse for our interns to go club-hopping) and an…

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